Business Skills & Mixing Techniques

FANTASTiC | 09 April 2019 | 7.06 GB

Tune into this episode to learn some extremely valuable business and audio advice from DR Ford. He explains some essential advice, from tips on running your own studio, to advice on marketing, and how to price your services. He discusses what to look for in a client, how to get ahead as a music producer or engineer when you’re first starting out, and how he preps for his first meeting with a client. He also covers some great exercises for evolving and tuning your ear as an engineer, and gives us some tips for mixing. Tune in to learn some great theory about mixing, including how the golden ratio influences mixing, how human psychology influences mixing, and how he treated each instrument in his example mix for this episode. It’s an extremely informative episode for anyone looking to make a living off engineering or producing.

Ableton Live Production Techniques

FANTASTiC | 09 April 2019 | 2.14 GB

This course is a comprehensive overview of Ableton Live 9 with San Diego dubstep and electronic music producer Convulsic. It is designed to cover some of the most important features of this very complex production software suite. Starting from the ground level, we broke this course into four sections of forty-five minutes each. Each section will become more advanced than the previous section. Remember: The theories and practices being taught are not the end-all be-all as far as Ableton is concerned. This course is designed to show you one way of doing things, so that you can take these principles and implement them into your own workflow. In this episode, we cover Ableton preferences, setup, templates, window panes, audio vs. MIDI, and keyboard shortcuts and controls. He also covers details about different effects in Ableton, using drum racks, entering MIDI notes, racks, grooves, and freezing and flattening plugins.

Drum Recording Techniques TUTORiAL

FANTASTiC | 01 April 2019 | 2.41 GB

An acoustic drum set is one of the most complicated instruments to record, and many audio schools do not teach it with much detail. A drum set has many pieces and each drummer arranges their kit differently. It can be an intimidating task to record. This course aims to simplify this process by breaking down all of the variables that go in to recording a drum kit: from working with your drummer to choosing how many microphones to use, which microphones to choose, where to place them, and how to use effects when recording. A modern approach to recording drums is illustrated, as well as the classic Glyn Johns technique. Plus after the recording is done, editing and mixing is covered too. Whether you have recorded drums before and were not happy with the results, you know how to record drums but want some new insights, or you have never recorded drums but want to learn, you should gain a lot from this course. Thanks for checking out “Drum Recording Techniques!”

Ambient Music Production Techniques

FANTASTiC | 19 February 2019 | 279 MB

A good ambient track can literally take you to new mental planes without you even realizing it! Achieving this is no mean feat and requires a solid knowledge of complex processing techniques. In this course we look at different techniques in Ambient music production, focusing on iconic artists and specific creative processes that they use in their work.

Production Techniques & Strategies TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Dec 13 2018 | 288 MB

Getting Unstuck

Helpful video tutorial series about ways to get unstuck when feeling stagnated or lost when producing your music. Get a ton of helpful ideas that will get you back on track in no time! Adam welcomes you then starts with inspiring ideas on how to extend a melody, develop a chord progression, treat your arrangement as a workspace, and using subtraction techniques to add more to your tracks. Moving on you’ll learn production techniques such as “Doing the Opposite” to come up with interesting new elements, changing colors to spark different emotions and creativity, bouncing to audio to get you unstuck, and how to focus on songwriting instead of getting distracted by sound design or mixing details. Wrapping it up Adam gives more great ideas such as ways to beneficially reduce choice for a more focused approach, ways to create variations of drop leads, including workflow and organization tips like color coding and shortcuts, ways to help reset your ears if you’ve worked on your track for too long, ideas for searching for the perfect samples to use in your songs, and what to do if you just aren’t feeling creative.

Production Techniques & Strategies Standing Out

FANTASTiC | 26 Oct 2018 | 272 MB

Adam Pollard aka Multiplier, brings you an in-depth video tutorial series designed to help you make productions that stand out from the rest. Get a ton of helpful starting points, plus ideas and alternative techniques designed to fire up your creative mind and help you produce original content that stands out in a sea filled with the same old stuff. Adam begins by welcoming you and then hits the floor running with tutorials on counterpoint melody, utilizing different emotions as a starting point for your songs, mastering tricks, extreme ambience limiting and stereo imaging, all designed to giver your sounds a superior edge. Next you’ll explore the art of “telling a story”, placing different instruments on different notes of a chord and beyond, unique processing algorithms for unique sound design, creating arrangement transition tracks, using unusual scales for flavor, alternative time signatures, and much, much more!

Advanced MIDI Techniques Ableton Live

FANTASTiC | 14 July 2018 | 219 MB

Knowing Ableton Live’s MIDI basics can get you a long way, but learning more advanced techniques will open up a whole new world of creative possibilities. This course, by Ableton Live certified trainer DJ Kiva, details many expert techniques and workflows guaranteed to get your MIDI creative juice flowing. Are you often stuck in a 4-bar loop? Kiva starts the course by revealing various ways to break out of the “loop” mindset and create interesting variations to help you finish your tracks faster than you ever thought possible. Next, he explains and demonstrates how to come up with fresh musical ideas using the powerful MIDI devices included with Live: Arpeggiator, Chord, Note Length, Pitch, Random, Scale and Velocity. How to generate new patterns with the Mono Sequencer or with some intricate MIDI routing is also covered. Finally, you get even more adventurous by mixing and matching all the techniques and devices covered in the course.